As expected with the Democratic takeover of the U.S. House, Rep. Eliot Engel has been elected the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He now becomes the top Democratic voice on foreign affairs in Congress.
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A small crew from City Council Speaker Corey Johnson's office stood in the cramped quarters of the downtown 1 train’s elevated station at West 238th Street and Broadway on Friday. They weren't waiting for a train, just inviting riders to share how they felt about life as straphangers.
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Ed Silverman remembered vividly the day he looked up and watched a dirigible pass over his New Jersey home. He was 10, but didn’t think much of it. Yet little did that boy know that a short time later, that airship would crash in a field outside Lakehurst, and that the Hindenburg would become a permanent fixture in history.
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It’s become so familiar to some residents by now, it almost feels like a twisted Kantian cliché of sorts — the hassle of getting around the city on its sputtering public transit system — crawling subways, bunched buses, no end in sight.
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